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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber II</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="AUTOR  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">EPILOGUS</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="EPILOGUS  (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-difference">AUTOR</span></span></span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les Athéniens érigèrent une statue au génie d'Ésope,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et placèrent un esclave sur un piédestal immortel,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour montrer que le chemin des honneurs est ouvert à tous les hommes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et que la gloire récompense le mérite et non la naissance.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un autre m'avait devancé ; je n'ai pu être le premier dans ce genre ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">j'ai voulu du moins qu'il n'y fût pas le seul,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et cela par émulation, sans aucune envie.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si l'Italie accueille mon ouvrage,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">elle aura plus d'écrivains à opposer à la Grèce ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais, si la critique jalouse s'y attache,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">elle ne m'ôtera pas du moins le sentiment de mon mérite.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Que mon travail parvienne jusqu'à vous,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que ces fables vous paraissent ingénieuses,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et ce bonheur fera taire mes plaintes.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si, au contraire, cet ouvrage instructif ne rencontre</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que ces petits esprits qu'engendre la nature dans ses mauvais jours,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qui ne peuvent que censurer ce qui est au-dessus d'eux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je supporterai avec un cœur résigné ma fatale destinée,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">jusqu'à ce que la fortune rougisse de son injustice.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aesopo ingentem statuam posuere Attici</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="servulumquae  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">servulumque</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="servulumque  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">servulumquae</span></span> collocarunt aeterna in basi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">patere homini scirent ut cuncti viam</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec generi tribui, sed virtuti gloriam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quoniam occuparat alter ne primus foret,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec solus esset studii quod superfuit ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec <span class="fp-correction" title="hec  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">haec</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="haec  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">hec</span></span> invidia, verum est <span class="fp-correction" title="emulatio  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">aemulatio</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="aemulatio  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">emulatio</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quod si labori <span class="fp-correction" title="faveret  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">faverit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="faverit  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">faveret</span></span> Latium meo,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">plures habebit, quos opponat <span class="fp-correction" title="Greciae  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Graeciae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Graeciae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Greciae</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Si livor obtrectare curam voluerit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">non tamen eripiet laudis conscientiam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Si nostrum studium ad aures pervenit tuas</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et arte fictas animus sentit fabulas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">omnem querelam submovet felicitas.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sin autem doctus illis occurrit labor,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sinistra <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n91/mode/1up">p.28</a>]</span> quos in lucem natura extulit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec quicquam possunt nisi meliores carpere,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fatale exitium corde durato feram</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">donec fortunam criminis pudeat sui.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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